From the show at the Grand Palais, here is M-A's adult-sized gold tea set... And you could buy this travel tea set in the museum gift boutique...for a gazillion euros...LOOK at this romantic transfer on the blue tray above...Doesn't it look just a bit like this en famille portrait of Marie-Antoinette? I love this portrait of M-A at her drawing lesson - in those days you had to draw! It was de rigeur, bien sur. Portrait heads ofMarie-Antoinettes hair dos... AH HA! And her famous diamond necklace. Excuse the blur...Back to the gift boutique, you could buy a version of her diamonds...They did not have anything like this gold embossed, enameled armoire (at least I think it's an armoire..please correct me) in the gift shop... Quelle domage! Now this I would have bought.

Marie-Antoinette's travel chest or hope chest or something or other...You can see just how dark it was inside the exhibit

BiscuitBear bought this adorable period dress for her daughter and you can see her wearing it on Flickr.Charmant! Why didn't I get this mignon T-shirt?Did I eat macarons the end of the show? bien sur! BONJOUR PARIS!

22 comments:

Another great post--I love all the Marie Antoinette paraphernalia. I'm surprised they didn't arrest you for snapping that necklace! I can just see you--"Please, officer, I need a photo for my blog! My peeps will expect it"

Ok, I love this post! How I envy that you were at THE EXHIBIT. Thank you so much for this beautiful post with two of the things I love most, of course, the macarons, and then to feed my grand obsession with a portrait of Marie Antoinette I haven't ever seen, and she is drawing........oh my! Merci Merci, keep those newsletters coming so I can live vicariously through your adventures!

I just received the Pierre Herme water color yesterday and I simply adore it. I am going to have to order a Paris Breakfast water color every year as a gift to myself because it's such a unique way to remember my trip to Paris. I was so inspired by your watercolor that I placed an order for your note cards and biz cards from zazzle!

The T-shirt is sweet, but I *never* wear shirts with something across the chest. Once I got a topo-map shirt of Yosemite, and got ogled by a colleague who said he was trying to match the readings to me. E-nough!

Just returned from Paris a couple of weeks ago, and saw the Marie-Antoinette exhibit. If I remember correctly, the gold-embossed and enamel armoire you show on your Paris Breakfasts blog of Friday, June 27 was her jewellery box! If not that one, then one just like it!

Also visited the Decorative arts during the Napoleon empire exhibit at the Musée des arts decoratifs, and they may have had jewellery boxes like that there as well, or was it at Versailles.... In any case, I was impressed with the jewellery boxes, and marvel how those with means have pretty impressive ways to store all their necklaces, bracelets, tiaras, etc.....

That travel chest of Marie Antoinette's looks beautiful. Too bad there is just the one photo. Were you restricted somehow from taking more photos of it from different angles ?Amazing to think it belonged to her. It looks so fairy-like. I would have taken a hundred photos of it.